indirection
/ɪndɪˈrɛkʃ(ə)n
/ /ɪndʌɪˈrɛkʃ(ə)n/noun [mass noun]
Indirectness or lack of straightforwardness in action, speech, or progression: his love of intrigue and sly indirection...
- Rather, the commission is likely to pursue consumption taxation by stealth and indirection.
- The ferry barges across the seafront for its dock with categoric straightness, welcome after the shambles and indirection of Portsmouth.
- His method is understatement, indirection, irony.
Origin
Late 16th century: from indirect, on the pattern of direction.
- company-keeper
- company keeping
- company law
- company-loving
- company man
- company officer
- company promoter
- company promoting
- company secretary
- company sergeant major
- companyship
- company time
- company town
- company union
- company-wide
- company work
- comparability
- comparable
- comparably
- comparatist
- comparative
- comparative advantage
- comparative linguistics
- comparatively
- comparator